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Great design! Looks like something thats stepped out of the pages of a KOTOR comic. This is more like a suit worn by the old Crusaders (not to be confused with Neo-Crusaders). My advice is to keep all your armor the orange color your going for. You just have to much brown going on and nothing to contrast your armor beyond your waist. You want your armor to stand out on the fabric because well...it's armor =) It's what makes our costumes so badass. Also, you may want to consider going with a lighter tan or kakhi vest to show some fade of use.

I really like it! I personally like the color scheme in the second picture, but I agree there's a bit too much brown. I haven't posted on here in a few months, hadn't seen anything that really caught my eye that much. But this is really nice!

I actually have some of their body armor, and the chest armor wasn't to bad. The shoulders I had to work on some bubbled up spots, but chest armor isn't to bad. The back plate isn't the greatest, however their knees aren't to bad.

I would recomend not going with Starforge for anything. There are a few threeds on the board about them and they seem hit or miss. Use the search function and see for yourself. Personaly though, the quality of their work and other things about the company would steer me away from them. There are plenty of great artist and prop makers here at the THD that put out quality work, I'd recomend going with one of them for anything you need.

I see work like these designs and I wonder what I've been doing with my time. I'm dying to see this fleshed out.

I've been considering a cowl-type garment, despite how this might cover my chest plates, like in your brown-scheme design. Any ideas about how to bring this to life? I've done limited work with medieval costuming, and nothing there deals with stretchy material, so neck holes are a real issue. How do you design the neck area to get the right drape without being too bunchy or making it look like a turtle neck sweater?

If you adapted a bishop's mantal (spelling?) pattern to use as a cloth pattern, then attached a standard neck seal, that might help make your poncho thing both form fitting and unbunched up at the neck line.

I like your poncho thing I was thinking about something like this but I am holding out to see if I can find spandax for mine.